1.14 The Apple Festival: Part Two

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Isaac Allen Burns (01:25):
Hey, It's me, your GM, Isaac Allen Burns, here
with another episode ofDodoBorne. Now, this is a part
two from the last week, so wedon't have a lot of time. So
we're gonna get right to theepisode. Cue the music.

Annie Hawthorne (02:44):
Yes. I know Delilah.

I see, says Foswold. So you do retain some
of your memories from before.

I can't always activate them.

Curious. Perhaps if you come to Polaris,
we can work on that.

I look forward to

it. Very good. You learn how to do magic
with those arcane gauntlets ofyours, you shattered that
crystal, and you prove to me youcan do the magic, I'll
personally write you arecommendation in.

Thank you very much, sir.

He nods just as Hitchens is pulling out,
like, a deck of cards, and theystart to play a card game. And
he, without dismissing you,seemingly dismisses you by
turning his back to you.

I stand there for a minute, and I just look at
him, and I just look at thecrystal that I have in my hands.
And I'll, like, open up mylocker chest and tuck it away
really carefully, and then I'llgo find my friends that I just
left in the middle of thefestival.

You open it up. You see a glimpse of that
turnip there. You think back tothe easy days, and then it
closes, and you walk away. Andeventually, the three of you are
back together as Crank catchesup to you too.

Rowan Collins (03:46):
Well, but there's also the Apple playground that
specifically has, like, thebubble shaped apple

Joe Diametti (03:50):
Thing is for kids. Just that shield.

Crank doesn't wanna see the oh.

Hey, Craig.

Hey, Craig.

Yeah. Craig, do you wanna see the bubbles? Like
Of course,

I wanna see the bubbles.

See? See? See? It's not just for kids, Kapi.

But, yeah, you look around in a couple of
the other games, your finalticket that reaches out to you,
you see apple knockers.

Mhmm.

So you look over, you see there's a bunch of
targets, and you have to throwan apple to hit each of the
targets. Oh, yeah. Let's seemslike it would take some
strength.

Let's go. Sounds good. Before even seeing it, the
rest of them

I don't need them. You walk over to apple
knockers Yeah. And you see

He really likes his knockers.

You see a little farmer guy.

He does love his knockers.

You see this you see this farmer boy who's
there and says, step right up toApple Knockers. See if you can
hit the three targets with thesehere apples.

Yep. So I take the three apples.

Very good. Alright. You hit these different
targets here. This one willrequire instead of a DC based on
one roll, this one is going tobe three strength rolls.

Three strength rolls? Indeed. What if What if?
I I actually feel bad for us.Just like all we're working way
too hard to play these cards.

No. This is great. No. What are

you gonna do? I wanna I wanna use rain of
blades. I wanna spend a hope toconjure wait.

Conjure?

Conjure. I know how to say this word. Want to
spend a hope to conjure throwingblades that strike. This is
enemies, but we can pretend thisis things. Right?
Very close to you.

You know, in this case, this target is an
enemy.

It's your enemy. Your mortal enemy.

Yeah. So what am I using? I'm throwing the apples,
though. Right? Yeah.
But I wanna use yeah. So I wannause the rain of blades with it's
gonna be rain of apples.

This is incredible. If you spend that
hope, I will lower the DCs ofthese.

Okay. So I spend the hope. There it is. I'm down
to three hope over this bit. AndI I pull out the ring and, you
know, it glows red.
So this is a spell cast roll. 14with fear.

14 with fear. You watch as these apples soar
through the sky. Don't mind meupdating a quick number here.
Actually, no. I'm gonna use thisfear, actually.
I'm gonna use this fear in a

way that I can't wait. Why are you grinning like
that?

Oh, no. So you throw these apples, and the
first two hit the targets arekinda, like, in further
distances away, and one fellswoop three apples fly through
the air. One of them hits thefirst target. The second one
hits the second target, kind ofoff center, but still there.
Third one, though, kind ofovercompensates and goes really
far, goes beyond the target.

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But someone was watching andcatches the apple. And speaking
of knockers, you do see Nefanystanding there holding the apple
and just looks at you and givesa wink and takes a bite out of
the apple before she stridesover to you.

Hey, Nefany. How's Hi. How's how's the watch going?

The patrol's going really well. Right now,
the the two the guards areshifting right now. So
everything looks clean. They'vebeen checking all the people
coming in and no one seems alltoo suspicious, though. Couple
of VIPs have entered the town.
We can't confirm.

Perfect. Perfect. You're doing you're doing
excellent work.

Thank you. I can say the same about you.
You've organized quite a thing.

You know, I'm I'm nothing if not organizable.

You know, if we need to, we can stop by
headquarters and sort of do alittle more communication on any
next steps that we need Yeah.

I I would love cover Pistachio's ears. Yes. I I
think if we make it through thisday, I think you and I will have
a lot to celebrate.

There's no guarantee that everyone's gonna
make it, though. What?

No. Nothing,

Pistachio. Pistachio's trying to rest happy
hand off of their head. Like

No. No.

I can listen. I'm an adult. Can't be.

Stephanie, I just think you should prepare
yourself. It's absolutelypossible that any one of us
could die.

Yeah. In the in the in the grand scheme of
things, crank here. Real, realphilosophical with this one. You
know? This one's always alwaystalking about the inevitable
end, you know, really, reallymakes you think.

Yeah. Quake just found out that things can die
for no reason at all. Nothinginteresting happened, but Quake
did find out about the mortalityof fleshy things.

Oh, god.

Say, Duffy, how how have you been? How how how
how is Kapi? Anyway She's

just kinda watching with a wry smile and
looks at you, Kapi, and justsort of takes another bite of
the apple.

Oh,

my gosh. Yeah. Kapi just kind of shrugs, are
gonna do with him? You know?What are gonna do?

She chuckles and, like, presses herself into
you for a second and gives you asqueeze Oh. And says

Oh.

One thing that'll never die is my passion
for you, Kapi. So you gotta stayalive for me. Okay?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep.

Pistachio does, like, start looking up at the
thing and goes, this, perhaps Iam too young for. This, perhaps,
I am too young for. I think I'molder than most things, but god.

She takes a nibble off of your earlobe No.

Kathy, and then starts

to walk away.

Goosebumps. You know what? I would like Kathy
right now.

I want you to take that d 20. 20? I want you
to roll that d 20. Uh-huh. AndI'm gonna say you wanna roll
because I'm mean.
I'm gonna say you need to roll a12 or higher. So go ahead and
roll that d 20. Just tell mewhat you roll.

A 16.

Okay. 16. Very good. Kapi, after that
happens, as Nepheny walks away,you do a scan of the area, and
it seems like no one was payingattention or saw that. The two
of you especially look around,and it does not seem like
Scarlet is around.

Can can we have a little, like, huddle real quick?
Just like
a little little tiny huddle.

Breaks over.

No. It can't be. I really I it's just a really
quick thing.

Need checked in with the rats?

I have, but this is really quick.

Hey. So are you two gonna this ticket's good
for three people. Do you twowanna step up and try this?

I got some I got a bunch of kids. I got a bunch of
kids. I pushed I pushed them infront as I back up.

Alright. Here's your three apples. Who's
coming up first?

I push crank first.

Lot of shoving. Hey. No shoving. We can
we everyone can get a turn. Noneed to hurt.
No need to rush.

Okay. I'll throw them.

Alright, tall guy. Here you go. I have these
three apples. Go ahead and giveme three strength checks unless
you wanna try some crazybullshit.

My strength based build, I'm gonna stick
with it.

Sounds good. Here we go. Number one.

That's a crit.

Oh my god. Okay. We'll say the we're gonna
say you throw yours so hard. Itsplits in half halfway through
and hits two of the targets. Sonow I only need to make one more
throw.

Wow. 15 with hope.

15 with hope. You would you believe that the
DC for the third target wasindeed 15? You throw that apple,
and it hits square in the centerand hear a ding ding ding ding
ding ding ding ding ding. Andthat's the sound of the guy
behind the table saying thatwith his mouth, and he hands you
a potion.

What? I didn't get any

You didn't get all three targets. In fact,
you almost hit a civilian withyour third throw there.
Peacekeeper. Yeah. Well And thenyou

almost stuck your tongue in her mouth, I say, as I
throw

Pistachio, would you rather me talk to Nethany or
your mom?

I've already thrown. I'm ignoring you. What
is

the lesser of two evils?

It was 17 for my strength throw with fear.

So was that your first throw?

Yep.

Awesome. The first throw hits that target. Go
ahead and roll your second one.

Pistachio goes and is thinking really, really
hard between Nefany and theirmom. That's a 21 with fear.

Oh my gosh. Incredible.

Lots of fear.

Lots of fear. This almost feels like the whole goal
was to just generate fear fromus by playing so

many. Throw the second one. You think they're
thinking about it, and they justgo, Kapi, I would just rather
you say what you feel toScarlet.

Oh.

And the last one's a crit.

Oh my god.

The third one, the apple bounces off of
the target after hitting abull's eye flips in the air and
lands in your hands. And theguy's like, well, I guess you
can keep that apple.

And they crunch it.

Nice. Tastes good, doesn't it?

It does. It does taste good. Thank you.

Here you go. You can have a potion, which as
I said, which I didn't get achance to say before, this is a
bolster potion. That's right.The next time you drink it, you
get a plus one to your nextdrinks check.

Nice.

Yeah. That's right. Ain't that cool?

That's pretty cool.

That's some palmologist magic right there.
That's right. Alright. Anyways,I got other customers too. Now
y'all can get out.

What is your obsession with Scarlet? Who?

Me? Oh, you're not telling me. Never
mind.

My just more of a adventure guild thing.

Okay. I'm sorry. Sorry. I'll step out of
the way now.

Unless are you obsessed with Scarlet?

Who? Oh, you're Scarlet? Scarlet Apple
people? Oh, yeah. She's hot.

Hey. Hey. Woah. What? Watch your tone.
I will I will destroy this wholesetup you got.

Woah. Okay. I mean Alright.

You see this giant halberd I have? Woah. Shit. I

didn't I you know, I've been It's not that

he's with you're obsessed with Scarlet. It's that
he's obsessed with Scarlet.

He just calls Scarlet hot.

Yeah. She's hot.

I know she's hot, but he doesn't need to say it
like that. Did see how he saidit? No respect. Look. Have
respect, sir.
You're children around.

Did you just make out with a peacekeeper just

a second ago? The peacekeeper made out with me.
Very different.

I don't know, dude. You looked into it.

I'm into a lot of things.

He's into a lot of things, including my mom. So,
like Oh,

my man. High five.

Oh, no. Thanks. It's about my mom.

Don't think I forgot about the Scarlet thing.

Oh my. Kapi, I just feel like you you're
talking about the impermanenceof man and all that good stuff,
and I just think it's

very important. You you just said I've at least
one word I don't know.

Okay. Okay. But Pistachio looks at Crank and
goes, I gotta tell him. Gottatell him what? I gotta tell him.

You gotta tell me what?

Oh. Oh. Oh. We were not supposed to tell him
anything, though.

No. But he's our boss. He's gonna go this whole
day without seeing her.

Oh, I guess you're right. Maybe we should
tell him.

Pistachio looks at Kapi.

Kapi is starting to feel like maybe he doesn't
this doesn't there's no way thisgoes well for him. And I think
he has those radars, so he'sjust I I think the Kapi. Mayor
needed protected.

I Kapi.

I just I think I'm gonna try to run.

Alright. Okay. If Kapi tries to run

Alright. I'm trying to run.

Okay. Pistachio.

I'm going to take off. I'm going to sprint.

Going

With my oversized

Oh my god. If Kapi's gonna run and Pistachio's
gonna try and tangle him up withsome

more vines. Okay.

Alright. What does that look like?

Alright. What what can I do

to prevent it? So it's a spell cast roll against
you.

Okay. So what do I do?

What's your evasion?

Oh, evasion's 12.

Okay.

Okay.

My spell cast check was a 13. Okay. So I feel
like the vines shoot up and,like, entangle a get around Kapi
and just like

Not

cool, kid. I am your boss.

I know. You're my boss, but you need to listen

to me.

I'm not

listening. I don't wanna hear that.

Okay. I feel like Pistachio's, like, trying to,
like, put their little tinyhands on Kapi's face and goes,
Kapi, Scarlet may not make itout of this festival single.
What? She's engaged. No.
They're forcing an arrangedmarriage, Kapi. This is your
last date.

Forcing an arrangement.

Her father.

With who?

With Craig, who was it?

The Viscount's son.

That was it. Nephew.

The Viscount's nephew.

Viscount's nephew.

What?

They're forcing her to get married to the
Viscount's nephew. Kapi, this isyour last shot.

Oh. Yeah. Kapi's just reeling. Like, the whole
like, his sound goes out intunnel vision, and I think he
just passes out in the vines.Just

I catch him before he hits the ground. As

that happens, vines appearing out of the
ground from a chase has caused abit of a commotion, so a bunch
of people are looking at all ofyou. And you definitely did say
that out loud to a bunch ofpeople. You hear someone whisper
like, Scarlet's getting what doyou need? Scarlet's getting

Scarlet's shot. And

at that point, you see the people who
respond to the commotion, whichin this case was two of the
people who were patrollingaround. If you couldn't guess,
one of them was Nepheny. Andanother one we're gonna say is
Miles comes charging into thescene seeing vines, and Nepheny
fully tackles you to the ground,Latashio, and says, what is the
meaning of this? What's goingon? Why are we casting magic?

I grab her by the bag of her coat or whatever,
and I yank her off, and I say,don't touch my friend.

She you yank her up off of the ground, and
she, like, smacks your hand awayand says, you all are causing a
commotion, and you need to ceaseright now.

We will cease, but cease putting your hands on
my friend.

Cease wrapping vines around one of
your companions.

Well, our companion maybe should cooperate
with us.

Kapi, why isn't he cooperating with you?

He's unconscious.

I Why isn't Kapi cooperating?

The vines were for his own safety. We were
trying to prevent him fromfalling over because he is
dehydrated and hasn't had enoughapples today.

Yeah, He hasn't had enough apples today. You've
been spending too much time onhis mind. Okay?

I'm on his mind. Yes.

You're on his mind, Nefety. And we needed to
wrap him up because he wasdehydrated and was gonna pass
out. Okay?

We have this all under control. Thank you.

We have this all under control. I will disperse
the vines. I'm sorry. No morevines unless something bad
happened. But please, would youmind at least giving him some
space so he could get some waterin him?
I don't know what you've been upto.

I'll take care of him. I'll get him some
water. No. Don't worry,everybody. She kinda turns to
the crowd.
Everyone, it's fine. Nothinghappened. Disregard anything you
heard or saw. The festival isjust fine. See, her and Miles
are, like, kind of, like,getting in the crowd.
She's gonna walk over to Gappyand, like, pick them up very
easily.

What did I just say about putting your hands on
my friends?

I'm not the one who wrapped him in a bunch
of vines.

Those aren't hands.

Well, he's passed out because of your
actions when you all aresupposed to be leading the
defense of this. So whateverpersonal problems that you have
with each other, you need tosolve it in ways that are a
little more healthy. I wouldknow.

Well, we're gonna go do that, and I'm just
going to grab on to Kapi and tryto pull him in the other
direction.

No. So Let go of him. I'm so proud of him.

Let go of him.

No. You ever let us You let

go of him.

We're gonna do an oppose straight chair. I'm not
I'm not a fritter. I'm not somefritter. Your chair. Paws off.

Can I use my you've got a friend in me
experience because Kapi's myfriend, and I don't want her to
take him?

I'm gonna say yes. I will say she rolled
really well, so you have to bean 18 on this.

Oh, Jesus. Got a friend. Hang on.

I'm gonna say, yes, you can use you have

a friend to me

because Kapi is your friend. I believe I
would believe Crank wouldbelieve that Kapi is his friend.

I'm pulling for you. Joe. Joe is pulling for
you. I'm scared. I'm actuallyreally scared to go alone.

Oh, can I actually
assist
with this in a way? Can we do, like, an assist
maneuver where I'd, like, add myhope to help?

Sure. Do you wanna grab on?

This is how we're gonna spend them. The one move
hope

to help Kathy get pulled away.

Well, I guess we could see how it works and then
yeah.

I don't know if that is. I think

you have decide. Right now.

I think you have to decide before the roll.

I agree. You have to say it right now.

I don't

think it's worth it. Let me just let me
just try. Okay. Okay. Alright.
I'm just gonna roll it.

Oh. Messy. No. What do we got? Who do got?

That's a 9 with hope. Oh,

with hope.

I rolled a 3 and a 2. Was very close

to that. Rolled with hope, so it's better
than you were expecting. So 9unfortunately fails. She's able
to, like, get wrist control andget Kapi away from you. She's
sort of holding him, kind offireman carrying style, and
Miles comes up behind and says,hey.
I'm sure there's enough of Kapithat can go around. Let's just
put the boy down. And he slapsKapi really hard. Kapi, you wake
up. You're being held byNethany.

Is he still wrapped in vines?

We're gonna say the vines have broken up

right now. Hi.

Hey there, Cap. Are you doing okay? Yeah.
Me, Miles. I'm talking

to now. Oh, hey, Miles. Hey. Yeah. How's how's
how's the bar?

You know, bar's pretty full right now. I
got a couple of my friends kindarunning it right now. We just
were checking in because seemslike y'all gotten a little
kerfuffle, a little bit of anado.

Oh, it's just, you know, training.

Oh, you were train this was test.

You were testing this. Yeah.

Nice. Smart.

Oh, I see you, Kathy. Yeah. I see you, Miles.
And I I knew you would see meseeing you. I knew I knew I'd
see you CNBC any way.
And that's why we see eachother. That's why I think so
well, Miles. Yeah.

Yeah. Fist

bump. Fist bump. I do the little, like, explosion
thing.

You do the explosion thing. That's, a cool
thing that you know Miles do?

Yeah.

Miles is like, let's chill, dude.
Alright. Well, Stephanie, whydon't we put him down and we can
all take a deep breath? Yeah.Stephanie kinda puts you down
and kinda like straightens outyour jacket and everything and
like brushes your shoulders offand says, are you okay?
Did they hurt you?

No. No. Are you can't hurt me? No. Okay.
No.

I was just so worried about you. You were all
wrapped up in vines.

You passed out like you had

seen something or heard something
terrible.

Yeah. Something terrible. There it is. There
what is?

Don't worry. She leans in to kiss you.

I I guess I kiss back. Oh, no. Oh, no. I I don't
think it's a very enthusiasticone. It's one of those like

No. No.

I You kiss each other, and Miles and
Nephany walk away. And can oneof you that isn't Kapi make a

instinctual? Trent.

No. Pistachio, you turn around, and
you see someone who was in thecrowd is Scarlet who is looking
at all of this.

Oh, no. Scarlet. What? Hey, Kapi. Not to make the
situation any worse than italready has been, but there goes
there goes Scarlet having justseen you Macclips with a lady
that isn't her.

Pistachio, what? There's if she's gonna get
married, she's getting married.

You're not gonna go after her?

Go after Pistachio, I know you think
you're helping. How many howmany times? We we have one job
today. You throwing vines atyour fellow adventurers. Can you
just do me a favor and just makesure that we get through today?
And when we get ourrecommendation, we'll go our
separate ways. Okay? Just canyou do that for me?

Yeah. Yes, boss. Pistachio just kinda straightens
up and, like, walks off.

You know they really look up to you. Right?
You shouldn't talk to them likethat. I'm sorry about Scarlet,
but you really shouldn't take itout on Pistachio. I'm gonna go
after Pistachio.

Crank walks away towards Pistachio, leaving
Kapi alone. Pistachio, you'rewalking away, and you hear some
heavy footsteps approaching you.

Pistachio can pretty much think it's Crank,
but Pistachio's just gonna keepwalking. I think they're heading
towards the tavern this time.Yeah. I think this is the first
time that Pistachio's like, needa drink.

Very good. You head off towards the Aphid
Tavern, which is your classichaunt, and also was established
to be just down the road fromthe bakery. Yes. And sure
enough, Pistachio, as you passby the bakery, you see Scarlet
inside already back to work,working almost twice as fast as
you would imagine. But as youstep inside the tavern, you see
there's a couple of peopleinside the tavern.
Obviously, any restaurantsduring the festival are doing

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gangbusters right now, but thereare two seats up at the bar from
two people who stumble awayhaving delicious cider. Yeah.
You're able to get up. One ofthe younger bartenders comes up.
It's a fawn with, like, red fur.
Mhmm. Goes by Knuckles. And he'slike, I'll fill you up. There
you go. You like you're the onewho likes milk.
Right? You want somethingdifferent? You look kinda
bummed. How'd you like somecider?

Yeah. Decide. Could you do, like, a half and
half?

Half cider, half what?

Milk.

Milk? You know what? Just for you, I'd do
that. Yeah. That sounds good.
That sounds

Sounds like it'll curdle.

You yeah. He comes out with just the worst
thing ever and puts it in frontof you.

And Pistachio doesn't care. They just, like,
shoot it back, and they, like

Was it was it good? Did you like that?

Nope. I don't think

was try

it now.

He goes at the back and makes one for
himself.

Go back with another one, please.

You got it. Uggles goes back with another
one just as Crank comes in frombehind you.

I'm just gonna sit down with my one good audio
receptor towards Pistachio, incase they wanna talk, but I'm
not gonna push. I'm just goingto be a nice little supportive
presence.

Pistachio shoots another one back and again goes.

That doesn't look very enjoyable. Why are you
doing it?

Because people do a lot of things when they're
upset.

I

don't understand, Craig. I'm just trying to help.
And I feel like everything I do,Kapi I feel like he doesn't like
me.

I feel like Kapi doesn't like a lot of
people.

And I'm one of them. Right?

I don't think that's any fault of you worse,
though. I think Kapi's justemotionally constipated.

What? I can see that. I can see
that. But I didn't think he would hate me
that much. I

I don't think he does. I think he likes you
when he's afraid of it.

You think so?

Yeah. I think he's very afraid of feelings. I
mean, you've noticed he doesn'treally have any friends. Right?

But I just thought that's because people
think he's too intimidatingbecause he's really cool.

Not that intimidating.

He's not. He mostly flirts with people.

Yeah. Very badly.

Except for the people that he really shouldn't
be flirting with, like my Bob.

Your Bob. He has a thing for moms.

Maybe he has, like, a mom thing. Does Kapi
have a mom? Maybe he's lookingfor a mom.

Maybe he is, like,

a mom.

Maybe we should find Kapi's mom.

Well, do you think maybe Cyrus would know
what happened to Kapi's mom?

Maybe. This

does not sit well with my stomach.

You see that Knuckles comes back, and he
writes on the board. It's calledmilk solid shot. Was half half
cider, half milk. He was like,yeah. I'm really looking for
shots that, like, create atexture, and, like, it curdles
the milk so much that it createsmilk solids.
That really gross, but it's,like, really textured. This is
the next best thing.

Yeah. Kinda like apple curds.

Apple curds. You wanna try one big guy? Oh,
wait. You don't drink?

Don't have an esophagus or a stomach, so I
don't really think it would Oh,dang.

That sucks for you, bro.

Yeah. I mean, that's all I've ever known.

Damn. That's hardcore. Write a song like
that.

Just going to, like, pat Pistachio on the
shoulder. I'm just gonna say Iwouldn't take it personally.
He's just dealing with his ownshit.

Pistachio will lean over to a crank on their
shoulder and go,
maybe the reason he wants to get rid of us so
much is because he does care,and he's afraid of that.

I definitely think that's the case.

Well, that makes me wanna love him harder.

And the camera just zooms out of the two of us
just

It zooms out, and it suddenly zooms back in as
a little guy

yells, delivery. Delivery. Delivery for one
crank.

How do they always find me?

Hello. It's me Postmates. I'm here to give you
a package. I missed Postmates.

Postmates.

That's right. I've been taking all your
business, crank. That's right.I've been getting the stale
leftovers from the bakery andtaking them around before you
could get there. That's right.
I've cornered the market like Isaid I would.

I have

I have been distracted for a few days, so
that's fair.

Oh, you've been distracted, have you?

Yeah. I've okay? To do. I just have more
important things to do.

More important? More important than
business? How dare you? How dareyou minimize all my hard work by
saying what I'm doing ain'timportant?

No. What you're doing is important. It's just
not important to Craig.

Or are you saying this ain't important to
you, Craig? You was my rival.

Did you have a package for me or not?

Well, yeah, I did. Well, I was gonna gloat,
and now it feels bad. So well,here you go. It's a little Apple
stuffy from Timothy and Alana.They sent you a little Apple
stuffy.

Oh, how nice of them.

Yeah. Well, I guess it is nice. I can't I
can't spin it in a way thatmakes me feel better. So I hope
you're happy. Hope you're happy.
You took all the all thegloating sales out of me wins.

I hope you're happy too, Postmates.

That means a lot. And he he turns, and he
walks out. And then the camerazooms away Mhmm. And follows
Postmates as the camera pans.And Postmates passes Kapi.
What's Kapi up to?

Entering the bakery. Ding ding.

Oh, yeah.

You enter the bakery, and it is a wildfire of
people.

Yeah. Kapi's stone faced. He's on a warpath.

Walk in, and you see but sure enough, there's
a couple of other people workingbehind the bar right now. You
see that Karen is behind theretaking lots of orders and a
couple of people going back andforth, some of them making
coffees and teas, a lot ofpeople making different apple
juices and ciders. And you seeone person sort of giving out
all the food as Scarlet. She ison point today. You can tell
that her voice is caring, clean,and true as she yells over the

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din of people.
They've pulled in more tables, alot more people just kind of
sitting and milling about. Butyou walk in behind the line, and
Karen sees you.

It's just

kind of like, yeah, Carol. That's what I said.

What'd you hear? Carol

says, well, hey there, Gappy.

Oh, hi, Carol. Yeah. I'd like a Apple turnover
today. Yeah. See, for years, I'dbeen coming in and getting a
fritter, but I think I'm gonnatry something different.

She sort of looks at you

and kinda cocks an eyebrow and says, okay. Is
Scarlet paying attention? I'm,like, basically, you're, like,
yelling at Scarlet.

Scarlet is casting a mean side eye towards
you

Yeah.

But is sort of just, like, seemingly
ignoring you until eventuallyshe puts the bag in front and
says, turnover.

Yeah. And I I grab the turnover, and then I hold it
up. And I go, see, is is thiswhat this is what you want? Just
for me to do somethingdifferent. Right?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Yeah. And and then I I I crumble it in my hands. My
god. I go and here's thefrustrating thing is that I
don't I don't want this.

I want the fritter. Why did you order the
fritter then?

Because I I I don't know how to express
things.

You don't what is Kathy, what do you want?

What? You're getting you're getting married?
Kathy, can we not talk aboutthis at work for once? When? Can
you come sometime when I'm notworking, You're Anytime.
You know when I get off? Nope.Seriously? You don't know when I
get off? Get out, all of you.
Out. Store's closed. Thirtyminutes break.

Lisa Carroll kinda looks and is about to say
something when you see thatScarlet goes out from over the
counter and, like, grabs

your wrist

and drags you to the back.

That's good.

Yes. Go, Scarlet.

She just drags you into the back into,
like, the back office, and shesays, Kapi, what is your deal?
What do you want? I Why are youcoming in yelling about my
business?

Because I wanna know why I wasn't owed an
explanation.

I wanted to tell you, Kapi. Alright? But I
wasn't I wasn't supposed to, andI didn't know what you would do
because it had been so long. AndI didn't think look. What do you
what you want an apology fromme?

No. Oh. I I probably owe you an apology,
Scarlett. You know, I think fora long time I wanted to get out
of this town because you weresuccessful. And I thought that
if I could be successful and getout, then you would see
something in me.
But I think I might want toleave for other reasons now.

Tears are starting to well into her eyes
and you know that she reallyhates it when that happens. So
she's like trying to fight backcrying and says, you didn't have
to change for me. I I'm sorrythat I I don't know. My dad made
me break up with you. I knowI've said it before, but I
wanted to run this bakery, andhe I picked it over you, and I'm

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sorry.
But you were always really nice.

No. I wasn't.

Well, you made me laugh at least. You you
can be nice. You just somehowdon't think that you need to be
nice. Where you you would alwayscome into my workplace and just
make it so much of a problem,and I would always hate it. But
then it would just make me laughafterwards because you're so
awkward when you come in andtalk to me when I'm working.

You know

I hate it.

I think I'm pretty cool. So yeah. Okay. Yeah. Ask
Carol what she thinks of youbeing cool.
Carol got the hots for me. Shegoes the damn day.

Have the hots

for you, Kapi. You think every older woman who's
nice to you just has the hotsfor you. To see one that
doesn't. Carol is one that doesnot have the hots for you, Kapi.
I hate to break it to you.
Okay. Well, agree to disagree.

She she laughs. The kind of laugh that
you can tell is, like, full ofemotions that are being released
and says, I don't know what tosay, Kathy. I'm so I am I'm
sorry that about what happenedback then, and I'm sorry that I
sort of assumed you would juststay in the same place.

Do you want to get married? No. Well, is there a
way that we can make this nothappen?

I don't know. I was gonna talk to my father,
but I'm afraid you know how heis.

Yeah. No. I don't think that's gonna work.

I was really mad when I saw you with that
girl.

Oh, shit.

That made me realize some things. And I'm
gonna talk to him, and I'm gonnatell him that I don't wanna get
married. I'm gonna tell him thatI still wanna own this bakery
and that he can shove it. Wouldyou stand with me when I said
that to him?

Yes. Or what? I would I would love any excuse to
tell your dad to kick rocks.

I know. So who is that that you were
kissing? Oh. Who was that?

Yeah. That's I don't maybe my girlfriend?

Well, good. Well Good.

Good feels like a strong word. Scarlett, she
scares me. I'm scared.

What are

you talking about? I'm scared. What did you
do?

I thought I was being charming, but she she's
like the older woman. She's gothappy fever. Oh my And I I keep
waiting for it to break and it'snot breaking, Scarlett. I'm I'm
a little nervous, but we need toget through the Apple Festival.
And then and then I and then Ithink I'm gonna break it off.

Okay. Well, that's kinda shitty. But

Yeah. No.

I think you need to figure that out.

Yeah. Definitely.

You should you should figure that out. I'm
still mad at you, but I don't Iknow I don't really have a right
to be because we were we've beenbroken up for a while now.

Alright. Well, I gotta go do some apologies, I
think, and sort some stuff out.Let me know when you're gonna
tell your dad. I'll be there.

Okay. I will. And she kinda holds out a hand
for a handshake?

Yeah. He shakes her hand too.

She shakes your hand and kind of smiles and
says, maybe we maybe you figureyour stuff out, I'll figure my
stuff out, and then maybe we cantry again.

I like that. Alright. And then I think Kapi
leaves, but back through thefront, and he grabs a fritter on
the way out.

You go through the front door, and you
get a fritter at the moment. Youstep out there. Carol looks at
you and says, now look here,young man. You where did you get
off yelling at all of ourcustomers?

Oh my god, Carol. Get in line.

Do you know how

many women I have after me right now? I don't have
time for this.

Gabby, what

the you get back here. Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding.
What's that?

You see Scarlet leaves and shakes her
head at you, and you leave thebakery. And as you head off, you
see coming up the street is twoindividuals who look like
they've been drinking a littlebit. And by they, I mean one of
them, and that's pistachiobecause Crank can't

drink. Uh-oh.

Hey, kid. Trying to, like, keep pistachio
from stumbling too much.

If I believe oh, hey. Look. It's it's Gabby. Oh,
see me right now. He wants tonever see me again because I
messed his life up.

Do you let Pistachio drink on the job?

Pistachio is an adult. They have free will.

We have

can't stop them.

This is so tough for me, Crank. I know I know I'm
supposed to apologize, butthey're drinking on the job.

We were on a break.

This is not We were on a break.

We were on a break. It's likely you're
dating.

Pistachio.

What?

Oh, alright. No. We'll do this later. We gotta
sober Pistachio up.

Pistachio has fallen and is like just like the
sky, it looks
real funny right now.

You see Hazel walks up.

Oh, hi, Hazel.

Uh-oh. What'd you do to my sibling?

Hi, Hazel.

Your your sibling did this themselves.

Oh, I have a new Drake named after us.

Alright. Well, I'm just here to give the
report. No sign of that blueguy, and no sign of anyone still
coming through the gates.Everything still seems pretty
clean.

Oh, well, that's good. Do you have
anything that could sober statueup?

Do I

have any idea which stat being drunk affects?

We're gonna say all of them.

Okay.

And you see that Hazel's gonna pull out a
little flask of cold water

and just pour it on top

of pistachio.

I, like, put my potions away because I was just
going to make pistachio drinkall of

my potions.

Their their hair, which is curly, has, like, done
the thing when curly hair getswet and just, like, like, just
goes straight. You know? They'relike,

Okay. Well, you need to stop drinking on the
job, Pistachio.

You're on a clock now.

We were on a break.

We were
on a break. Thanks, Hazel.

Feeling better?

Yeah. I'm feeling better. Are you feeling better,
Kapi?

Yeah. Alright. Let's get this over with.
Pistachio.

Kapi.

Pistachio.

Kapi.

Pistachio.

Kapi.

Listen. Crank. Okay. I'm gonna use all of the
maturity that I can muster todeliver this. Okay?

Okay.

Alright. So do you know how Crank never engages in,
like, any fight even though whenyou kinda pick him, he doesn't
engage? Kinda like Postmates.You remember Postmates?

Yeah. We saw Postmates.

Oh, you did? Yeah. Remember Postmates wanted to
make Crank their arrival?

Right.

And Crank was just like, no. Like, Crank's that
person who just doesn't fightwith you even though you wanna
fight.

Well, Crank fights a lot, but, like

Physically. Right? But not like

Oh, okay. Right? Yeah. Yeah.

You do get upset.

Yes.

And so when I want to have an outlet of being
upset, it's easy to engage withyou, which is not right of me.
Okay? That is not right. Ishouldn't do that. I know all
you do is care and at the end ofthe day, that's just me being a
bully.
I hate that about me and I'dlike to be better. That didn't

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sound sincere. I would like tobe better And I'm sure you're
gonna make a great doctor oneday. Okay? And I think you could
do better than whatever thisrelationship is.

Kapi.

Pistachio.

Kapi.

Pistachio. Kapi. Pistachio. Craig. Can

I hug you?

I yeah. I don't really hug good.

And they, like, just, like, glomp onto you. And
go, Kapi,
you are also my best friend and I would like you
to come with us. I know youprobably have other ideas, but I
would rather not let this be ourlast adventure.

Yeah. You're pretty good at hugging.

I know. It's all of my extra fluff.

Yeah. What about you, big guy? You want some of
this action? Come on, buddy.

I'll just wrap my massive arms around both of
them, and I'll pick them up.Okay.

And I'll spin them around. Human furballed organs
furballed organs.

Oh, no. I'll put them back.

Oh, no. Yes. You guys, I I wanna be friends.

Well, good news, Kapi. We're already friends.

Okay.

So you eventually get back to your
patrol after that was probablyabout two to three hours, little
longer than a break. But, hey.It worked out. You feel you all
I won't tell you how all of youfeel, but I think that deep down
inside, I think weights feellifted from your shoulders as
you walk your patrol once more.Eventually, it gets late into
the night.
And by late into the night, Imean that as a 40 year old

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because it's about 07:30.

Pretty late. The

sun has dropped over the horizon, and
that good old springtime moon isup high in the sky as torch
lights and lamps light up thestreets, reds and greens and
yellows. And at the main stage,do the three of you find
yourselves? There are plenty ofchairs and long benches that
have been set up in front of thestage as this is where the

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inaugural speech by one EdgarBalthasar will take place. Seems
like things have been going offwithout much of a hitch. I would
assume y'all are standing kindof in the back, right, just so
can get get eyes on everything.
Earlier that day, MelissaMartin, the senator, had
returned to her room, citing areal bad headache from the
amount of cider that she haddrank. So she is not in

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attendance, but you see prettymuch all the people you know.
You see in one of the largebenches, you see Timothee and
Alana sitting there. You see thedrupes. No sign of Cyrus
anywhere, and no sign of Scarleteither.
You don't see Scarlet kind ofhanging out. You also don't see
any of the Apple people. Butmost of the other people are
here in attendance. You imaginesome of them may have just, you
know, dipped out. They've heardthe speech plenty of times.

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And as it stands up, you seemayor Raisins gets up on stage
and kinda clinks a glass andwelcomes everybody and
introduces the man of the hour,Viscount Edgar Balthazar, who's
gonna come up and give a speech.Woo. Yay. Exactly. Standing up,
you see this dwarven man whostands pretty tall, for a dwarf
that is, and steps up and takestakes a stand at the podium.

(42:59):
They don't have microphones inthis, so that he's just kind of
letting his voice project. Andhe says, friends, family, those
joining us for the very firsttime and those who have joined
us plenty of times before, I'dlike to welcome you here to the
Bracken Road Apple Festival.Classic aurelio. This long

(43:22):
honored tradition has alwaysbeen an exciting cap off to our
season of harvest. I'm sothankful that all of you are
here to join us for this greatday.
Unfortunately, my eldest son,Wolfgang Balthazar, was unable
to attend today due to sickness,but my second son, Major

(43:43):
Balthazar, kinda holds his handup. You see the nicely dressed
individual from before whostands up awkwardly and gives a
little bow. He is here in hisstead. Perhaps one day, he'll be
able to give the speech. Anyway,this festival marks a time for
us to stop and appreciate all ofthe hard work that we've done

(44:06):
for this season and to see howfar we've come.
Our stocks are full. Our applesare plump just like every year
and every season. This festivalis a time to see just how loved
we all are, to see how much wemean to each other. It is

(44:26):
important in life to be thankfulfor what we have, for who we
have, and for who we love, andfor those who love us. We
remember the bonds we have allforged and the connections that
we have established with oneanother.
Connections that not even thenine up above can part from us.

(44:47):
I would like to point out thatof our new neighbor, Jethane,
has come to our fair country andto our very town, the first
official time that a member ofthat neighboring nation has come
on an official capacity to ourcountry here, and they chose to
do so at this festival. We thankthem and thank everyone else who

(45:09):
made this possible. Round ofapplause for all of our hard
workers. This momentous occasionwill not soon be forgotten.
At that, you three notice asound on the air. You hear a bit
of yelling in the distance, andthe distant pop of what sounds
like guns. You look over towhere it's coming from. You look
over to the right. It seems tobe coming from the town hall.

(45:32):
No one else seems to havenoticed it because it's very far
away. And I would like the threeof you, pick one person
actually, to give me a instinctrole, see who wants to try and
see.

My instinct is plus two, but I think Crank has
an extra plus one right

now. Yeah. But mine's only plus two with that.
So

Mine's plus zero.

Alright. Alright.

Pistachio, you look over.

18 with 18 with fear.

Fear. Incredible. You look over
Pistachio, and the gunshots arecoming from close to town hall.
As you look, you see a figureclimbing on top of town hall.
It's kinda tough to make out,but at the very steep top of it,
you see an individual kind ofraising their arms up to the
side, arms akimbo, much like a,you know, Christ the Redeemer

(46:19):
down in Rio De Janeiro orwhatever it is, maybe Brazil,
somewhere in South America.
Doing that kind of pose, you seetwo horns from atop their head,
and you can recognize the faceof Ashe up above there. You
also, with that 18, can see justthe biggest smile on his face.

Guys, Ashe is on top of the town hall.

On an 18 with fear, you also hear the creaking
of boards. And you look over thestage to see Edgar Balthazar
sort of finishing off hisstatement and he's raising a
glass. And he says, raise aglass with me, a toast to our
health, the future of our, andon that, an explosion resounds
out. As he opens his mouth, theglass suddenly drops from his

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hand and shatters as a shockwave goes through the town. A
plume of fiery smoke comes fromthe town hall building itself.
There's a moment of silence aseveryone is trying to figure out
what to do when suddenly a swordand then a second sword appear
out of the chest of EdgarBalthasar. Coming out of an
invisibility spell, you seesomeone dressed in very similar

(47:28):
armor to what you saw on thosetwo individuals around the
senator. As Edgar Balthasar'seyes wide in surprise and blood
begins to trickle down the sideof his mouth, he falls to the
ground as a voice rings out fromthe stage, death to Voldani
dogs. Glory to Jethane.Pandemonium erupts almost
immediately as people beginclimbing all over themselves to

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get away from the stage.
Gunshots begin to ring out fromthe distant buildings as you
hear kerfuffles occurring fromall around town. Fires begin
lighting up at certain points.And that is where we're gonna
end this session of Daggerheart.Hey. It's a podcast.

My goodness. Good job, everybody.

Oh my goodness. What a jam packed
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